FG To Pay Swiss Govt $79 Million Commission To Collect $400 Million Abacha Loot
The Muhammadu Buhari government may have agreed to pay the government of Switzerland $79m (N25.2bn) as part of conditions for the repatriation of almost $400m (N128bn) recovered from the family of the...
View ArticleGhana: President Mahama’s Concession Speech Everybody Is Talking About (READ)
Ghana’s out-going President John Mahama has conceded defeat in grace to President-elect Nana Akufo-Addo promising to offer his support and experience to the incoming president. In a solemn speech of...
View ArticleTrouble Brewing As Gambia’s President Jammeh Annuls Dec 1 Election After Losing
Gambian President Yahya Jammeh said on Friday, December 9, 2026 he rejects the outcome of last week’s election that he lost to opposition leader Adama Barrow and called for fresh elections. The...
View Article3 Dead, Scores Injured In Twin Suicide Bombing In Maiduguri
The National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, has announced the only the two suicide bombers, a man and a woman, died in the bombing on Sunday morning in Maiduguri. In a set of tweets, NEMA updated...
View ArticleUyo Church Collapse: ‘Over 200 Dead’ As Governor Emmanuel Blames ‘Building...
The facts surrounding the collapse of the Reigners Bible Church in Uyo on Saturday, December 10, 2016 are still coming with an official saying 200 had been killed in the disaster. Some accounts say as...
View ArticleAdeosun Rolls Out The Federal Government’s 10-Point Fiscal Roadmap
Kemi Adeosun, Nigeria’s minister of finance, on Friday, December 9, 2016 outlined a 10-point fiscal roadmap to reset the Nigerian economy to a path of growth. Mrs. Adeosun, who represented the vice...
View ArticleGambia Crisis: UN Security Agency Gives President Jammeh ‘Marching Orders’
The UN Security Council has asked outgoing Gambian President Yahya Jammeh to carry out a peaceful and orderly transition of power to the president-elect, Adama Barrow, the opposition leader who was...
View ArticleBuhari’s Environment Minister Set To Ditch Cabinet Position, Return To The UN
Amina Mohammed, Nigeria’s environment minister, is set to ditch her position on the federal cabinet and return to the UN, as a deputy secretary general. According to Premium Times, an official...
View ArticleHot Mess: APC Sends Out Statement On Behalf Of The Nigerian Amy
The ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, Rivers State Chapter on Sunday, December 11, 2016, sent out a press statement on behalf of the Nigerian Army. The statement signed by Kasimu Abdulkarim,...
View Article#RiversRerun: ‘Buhari, APC Taking Nigeria’s Democracy To The Stone Age’– Fayose
Ayodele Fayose, the governor of Ekiti State, has described the December 10 legislative rerun elections in Rivers State as a sad reminder of the level of destruction already done to the country’s...
View ArticleBREAKING: Magnus Abe Declared Winner Of Rivers South East Senatorial Race
Magnus Abe, candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has been declared winner of the legislative rerun election in Rivers South East Senatorial District. The returning officer for the Rivers...
View ArticleUyo Church Tragedy: Ikpeazu Condoles Governor Udom, Akwa Ibomites
Okezie Ikpeazu, the governor of Abia State, condoles with the people of Akwa Ibom and Governor Emmanuel Udom on the church building disaster which occurred in Uyo on Saturday. Dr. Ikpeazu’a condolence...
View Article#RiversRerun: ‘PDP Won East, West Senatorial Seats,’ Wike Calls On INEC To...
Nyesom Wike, the governor of Rivers State, has called on the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC to release the results of the rerun elections for Rivers East Senatorial District and Rivers...
View ArticleThe Minister Of Defence Can’t Fire Service Chiefs – FG Responds To Rumours
The federal government led by Muhammadu Buhari has debunked internet rumours that two service chiefs – the only two who are from southern Nigeria – have been dropped by President Muhammadu Buhari. The...
View Article‘Sagay Is A False Intellectual With A Broken Moral Compass’– Wike
Nyesom Wike, the governor of Rivers State, on Sunday, December 11, 2016 lambasted the chairman, Presidential Advisory Committee on Anti- Corruption (PACAC), Itse Sagay describing him as “as a false...
View Article#RiversRerun: PDP Agent Shot And Killed By Police Working With APC’s Maurice...
Sadly, an official of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, was shot in the head on Saturday, December 10, 2016 in my Ogoni village, Bodo – by a security officer who was attached to the All Progressives...
View ArticleBREAKING: Sekibo, Ideozu Of PDP Win Senatorial Seats In #RiversRerun (VIDEOS)
The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has declared George Sekibo, candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, the winner of the legislative rerun election in Rivers East Senatorial...
View Article‘Rivers People Have Been Robbed’: PDP Rejects Magnus Abe, APC Candidate Wins
The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Rivers State says it vehemently rejects the results as announced by the presiding officers of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, declaring the...
View Article3 Dead In Stampede At TB Joshua’s Synagogue Church In Lagos
At least three worshippers lost their lives in a stampede at the headquarters of the Synagogue Church of all Nations, Ikotun Egbe, Lagos. The SCOAN was founded by its senior prophet, a famous...
View ArticleSit-tight Jammeh: Buhari, Mahama To Join ECOWAS Mediation Delegation To Gambia
President Muhammadu Buhari will travel to Gambia on Tuesday, December 13, 2016 to meet with and persuade President Yahya Jammeh to hand power over to Adama Barrow, the president-elect of the West...
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